Glass Casket · If I Die First

150 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
GLASS CASKET · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 39 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 12 sections: 86 keep time, 45 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-100.

PART H
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART H
PART AA
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKHWAAO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glass Casket?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Glass Casket hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Glass Casket?

16 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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